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Exposes how ex-gay and post-abortion ministries operate on a shared system of thought and analyzes their social implications.

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Author:   Cynthia Burack
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.363kg
ISBN:  

9781438449869

ISBN 10:   1438449860
Pages:   257
Publication Date:   01 February 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction: The Christian Right's Compassionate Conservatism Left, Right, Left: Forward March The Faces of Compassion Different Rhetorics for Different Folks Fixing Moral Boundaries ""The Politics of Yuck"" A Word about Words, and So On 1. Let's Both Agree That You're Really Sinful: Compassion in the Ex-Gay Movement Reparative Therapies The Narrative of Development Out of Bondage The Compassionate Gaze Leaving Homosexuality Taking the Ex-Gay Challenge 2. What about the Women? Compassion in Postabortion Ministries From Abomination to Compassion It's about the Women, Stupid Postabortion Sydrome Compassion before Abortion Helping Hurting Women Sorting Out Compassion 3. Christian Right Compassion: What Would Hannah Arendt Do? Identity in Politics Caution: Hazardous Compassion Ahead The Miserable Ones Love among the Outcasts A World of Others Revisiting Compassion Campaigns Arendt and Christian Love 4. Just Deserts: The Compassion of Ayn Rand Who Is John Galt? Rand, Sex, and Gender Objectiv(ist) Compassion Ayn Rand Always with Us 5. Drawing the Compassionate Line: Love, Guilt, and Melanie Klein The Psychoanalytic Turn More Narratives of Development Making Good Bad Group! Being Reparative Can ""Compassion"" Harm? Compassionate Warriors Afterword: Compassion, Where Is Thy Victory? Whence Compassion? A Last Word on Theory Feeling(s) and Knowing Notes Index

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...[a] tightly woven analysis ... Reasoned and measured, this volume succeeds in its wide-ranging explication of its topic. - CHOICE

Author Information

Cynthia Burack is Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Ohio State University. She is the coeditor (with Jyl J. Josephson) of Fundamental Differences: Feminists Talk Back to Social Conservatives,, and the author of several books, including Healing Identities: Black Feminist Thought and the Politics of Groups and Sin, Sex, and Democracy: Antigay Rhetoric and the Christian Right, also published by SUNY Press.

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